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And Sir Archie ran toward them and cried in a loud voice: "Hither to me! For Scotland! For Scotland!" As Sir Archie walked out over the ice he still held Elsalill on his arm. Sir Philip and Sir Reginald walked beside him.
Then Elsalill said No, and would have slipped out of the door, but Sir Archie stood in her way and would have made her kiss him. At that moment the door of the cottage opened, and its mistress came in in great haste. Then Sir Archie drew back from Elsalill. He simply gave her his hand in farewell and hurried away.
Even after Elsalill knows that her love is the murderer of her sister, she still hopes to escape the action this knowledge demands: she tries to persuade herself that because he wants to make up to Elsalill for the evil he did to her sister, she should give him a chance to save his soul.
Elsalill saw that when the dead girl had sat for a few moments whispering to Sir Archie, he hid his face in his hands and wept. "Alas, would I had never found the maid!" he said. "I regret nothing else but that I did not let the maiden go when she begged me." The other two Scotsmen ceased drinking and looked in alarm at Sir Archie, who thus laid aside all his manliness and yielded to remorse.
"Ah, if I might one day meet that man!" said Elsalill. She stood before Sir Archie with clenched fists. "You cannot meet the man," said Sir Archie. "He is dead." But the maid threw herself upon the bench and sobbed. "Sir Archie, Sir Archie, why have you brought the dead into my thoughts? Now I must weep all evening and all night.
A fire blazed in the midst of the floor and round about it sat a number of men conversing quietly and at leisure. Elsalill hastened in to them, holding the coin aloft. "Listen to me, every man!" she cried. "Now I know that Herr Arne's murderers are alive. Look here! I have found one of Herr Arne's coins." All the men turned toward her. She saw that Torarin the fish hawker sat among them.
"Yes," said Sir Archie, "you must come with me, Elsalill, or else I shall be drawn down to my destruction." He began to whisper to the girl ever more tenderly, and again she thought to herself: "Were it not more pleasing to God and men that he be allowed to atone for his evil life and become a righteous man? Whom can it profit if he be punished with death?"
"Why do you weep, Elsalill?" asked Sir Archie. "I weep, Sir Archie," said Elsalill, "because I have too great love for you in my heart." Then Sir Archie came yet closer to Elsalill and put his arm around her. "Do you hear how the wind howls without?" said he. "That means that soon the ice will break up, and that ships again will be free to sail over to my native land.
They tried to tell him how they had discovered the trap laid for them and how they had succeeded in getting the heavy treasure chest away to the gallias and in collecting their countrymen; but Sir Archie paid no heed to their words. He seemed to be conversing with her he carried on his arm. "Who is that you carry there?" asked Sir Reginald. "It is Elsalill," answered Sir Archie.
She was on the point of calling to him that she was there at hand; but then the thought came to her, how strange it was that he had ceased to visit her, and she kept silence. "Maybe his fancy has turned to another," thought Elsalill. "Maybe it is of her he is thinking." For Sir Archie sat a little apart from the others. He was silent and gazed steadily before him, without touching his drink.
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